~ Repped a set of remedies, but no clear MM match--now

[Carol Orr]

Check out cocculus..i believe it has a characteristic of 'swollen' sensations
and can't get to sleep once they wake up and also has a switching of moods.

[Celia M. Malm]

I've managed to extract some more information from my patient!

He says that the tinnitus is a "high-pitched tone." He also insists that it
*isn't* in his *ears*, but rather in the back of his head. Can anyone come
up with a rubric for that? I can't find one in Kent or Boericke.

He says that the sensation of an elongated uvula has been ever since a bad
cold/flu about 10 years ago. Any particular rubric I should add for that?
Cee

[muthu kumar]

I think probably Tarentula H.

it has noises in head ( HA Roberts Sensations as if), some of the nervous "hysterical symptoms" like elongated uvula...

did you say the patient is > open air?

If so then Tarentula might be it

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Celia M. Malm" wrote:

[Celia M. Malm]

Yes, he is definitely better in open air.
Will take a look. Thanks!
Cee

[muthu kumar]

I also suggest you explore the depression aspect a little more... causes, reasons and symptoms etc. some of the strange bodily symptoms can be part of a larger picture of depression - noises, elongated uvula etc. could be because of that, sleep disturbances also could be part of it... though they may be helpful in individualizing the complaint, we might also do better to encompass all of them as depression ( since at times all of this would go into diagnosing depression ie symptoms of depression and so would not carry too much value in symptom evaluation) and then look for a concomitant and some general modality to get a totality-

Was the patient on allopathic drugs for depression - some of the symptoms could be related to that as well- please take a good drug history and then correlate with the symptom timing - when the symptoms appeared first etc.
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Celia M. Malm" wrote:

[Celia M. Malm]

I wouldn't say that the depression itself is a huge symptom--it's the
alternation between depression and cheerfulness that seems most marked. The
physical sensations appear to be unrelated to depression.
No. He isn't on any allopathic meds, and he dislikes taking medicines in
general. I've tried to get him to take herbal meds for his diabetes
(cinnamon) and blood pressure (hawthorn), but he says that taking a handful
of pills every day makes him feel "old," and he doesn't like that at all.
(Would there be a rubric for that?)
Thanks,

Cee